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Topic: BlackBerry as Orbiter? (Read 5394 times)

I am in the planning stages of doing a LinuxMCE setup. My wife and I both use BlackBerries and they would make ideal orbiters for us. I didn't see BlackBerry as a LinuxMCE supported device. Is this something that someone is working on?

If I wanted to use Web Orbiter over WiFi wouldn't I need to make the web server accessible over the public Internet? Or is there a way I can gain web access to a machine on the on the internal network from my BlackBerry? I use Freemote Control (http://www.accentual.com/freemote/) which allows me to control MythTV via my blackberry, so I know that the BlackBerry can access machines on the local network via WiFi...I just don't know how to do it using the BlackBerry Browser or Opera.

If the only option to use my BlackBerry with LinuxMCE is to make the Web Orbiter open to the public Internet, how can it be made secure?

My experience so far on this has been that the JavaMO will not work with the blackberry. I haven't spent enough time on it to tell you why, but I did take the client install files and convert them to the format BB needs to install, the MD did recognize the phone via bluetooth, but I have never actually been able to get them to "connect"

I haven't tried the Wifi route, that might be next.

There isn't anybody currently working on it that I know of. Hari was kind enough to create the "prototype" JavaMO, but nobody has run with it from there.

I have my BB 8300 Curve running JavaMO via bluetooth. it works just fine.

The key map does not translate well to the BB keyboard as it was designed for a Mobile phone numeric keypad but still works fine.

What version OS are you on? I have a Bold 9700, my wife has a Pearl 2 and we also have a 8820 without a sim card that works as a remote with MythTV. How did you get it installed and running? Was there anything special that you had to do? Is this something that might be good to put on the Wiki?

I'm not a programmer so I can't help writing code but I'm happy to help document as much as I can.

What I meant by Keymap being off is that the JAVA MO is set up like a 10 key (0-9) numeric pad where as the BB is a qwerty keyboard. This means that the number pad works but you have to use num lock and the numeric pad. It would be good if the full keyboard could be used although I have no idea what would need to be done to do this.

Thank you. I D/Led and installed JavaMO on my bold 9700. Installed the bluetooth adapter and the Core saw my blackberry, asked me the user/room and asked which type of device it was. I selected "Java Mobile Phone". Since I had already installed JavaMo I selected No when the core asked me if I wanted to try resending it to the phone since it failed the first try. I had JavaMO running and then my BlackBerry asked me for the passkey for dcerouter-0. I didn't enter anything and waited patiently. Eventually the BB said pairing failed and that's as far as I got. I didn't try manually pairing the device and the dcerouter is not listed in my Bluetooth devices on the BB. I rebooted the core and now whenever the BB is in range of the core it keeps popping up asking me for the passkey. I do not have the BB in listen mode but it is discoverable. It keeps asking me for the passkey until I walk far enough away or until I make the BB non discoverable. Then it will only keep the non discoverable setting until I try JavaMO again.

I had that same thing but I managed to get the same dialogue box to show up on the KDE desktop. I typed in the same code on the phone and in the dialogue box the two paired and then the orbiter loaded

That helped. I opened up KDE desktop, entered a code on the BlackBerry. Then KDE poppedup with a window and I entered that code. I saw a small symbian screen and it worked. I tried to uped the resolution in the orbiter setting to 320x240 (since I didn't see a match for my 480x360 screen) I chose PDA 4x3, regened and then I got the screen. However, LMCE doesn't like touchpads so it immediately clicked on a option as soon as I tried to move. I have to do some work until at least tonight so I won't be able to play with it any further until then. What orbiter settings have you tried and which have you fond worked best? Have you had any problems getting the JavaMO to exit? Mine seems to be locking but after a quick reset on the BlackBerry I'm back to "normal".